<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Found the cause of the problem: a syntax error in config.inc.php.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I found the error by cd to /opt/local/www/phpmyadmin and then executing php index.php. That gave the syntax error message.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 28 Oct2017, at 6:20 PM, Murray Eisenberg <<a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" class="">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Following the instructions at <a href="https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/PHP" class="">https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/PHP</a>,<div class="">I’ve completed a reinstall of phpmyadmin 4.7.4 (after getting working reinstalls of apache 2.4, mysql 5.7, and php 7.1).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I followed Step 4 (“Install phpMyAdmin), then the first Step 6 (“Configure phpMyAdmin"), and finally the _second_ (obviously mis-numbered) Step 6 (“Install pmadb”). In that last stepI did both parts, namely:</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> - create the sql tables; and </div><div class=""> - read in to mysql the file <span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);" class=""><font size="2" class="">mysql_phpMyAdmin_pmaSetup.sql — with the 3 edits indicated as needed for MySQL >= 5.6.7.</font></span></div><div class=""><font size="2" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class="">I did do three things differently with config.inc.php:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> (1) I’m using $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'cookie’; </div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);" class=""> and a setting for </span><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);" class=""></span><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);" class=""> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);" class="">$cfg['blowfish_secret’] </span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);" class=""> (2) I used a custom value for </span>$cfg['Servers'][$i]['controlpass’] instead of <span style="font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);" class="">'pmapass'</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);" class=""> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);" class="">(3) I’ve uncommented all the commented cfg lines that are shown at the end of the page (e.g., </span><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);" class=""><font size="2" class="">$cfg['Servers'][$i]['pmadb'] = 'phpmyadmin’; </font></span><span style="background-color: rgb(247, 247, 247);" class="">).</span></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Nonetheless, if I try to browse to <a href="http://localhost/phpmyadmin" class="">http://localhost/phpmyadmin</a> …</div><div class=""> </div><div class=""> ** I just see a blank page.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(The same thing happens, of course, if for the URL I use a virtual host ServerName that I configured in the apache httpd-vhosts.conf file.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yes, apache’s httpd.conf includes both...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> <IfModule dir_module></div><div class=""> DirectoryIndex index.php index.html</div><div class=""> </IfModule> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">.. and: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> LoadModule dir_module lib/apache2/modules/mod_dir.so</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Any ideas how to fix this?</div><div class="">
—</div><div class="">Murray Eisenberg<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" class="">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a><br class="">503 King Farm Blvd #101<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Home (240)-246-7240<br class="">Rockville, MD 20850-6667<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mobile (413)-427-5334<br class=""><br class="">
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---<br class="">Murray Eisenberg<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="mailto:murrayeisenberg@gmail.com" class="">murrayeisenberg@gmail.com</a><br class="">503 King Farm Blvd #101<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Home (240)-246-7240<br class="">Rockville, MD 20850-6667<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mobile (413)-427-5334<br class=""><br class="">
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